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Each day By George tweets quotes to motivate and inspire. Consider following us on Twitter to gain a source of positive energy. Imagine getting anyone of these tweets (below are the last 25 FAV tweets sent out this summer). You can join us on Twitter by clicking here: @ByGeorgeJournal. Whatever you can do or dream…
On a regular basis, By George posts thoughtful and provocative posters on our Facebook wall. Consider joining us for missives like the one above by Ernest Hemingway. Click here to connect with Chris George on Facebook.
Here are our most recent 25 “favourite” quotes that we have tweeted in the past month. You can receive these bons mots regularly by joining us on Twitter @ByGeorgeJournal. “Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” – Leonardo da Vinci “Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is…
Truly, there is nothing like a canoe…. In watching water and shoreline, the paddling relaxes and invigorates at the same time. Here are a dozen favourite quotes about a wonderful pastime: Everyone must believe in something. I believe I’ll go canoeing. – Henry David Thoreau To canoe is to be moved. – Doug E. Bell…
A Day in the Life of Man – Sustenance for the Soul is a moving collection of verse, thoughts and quotes that takes the reader through an average day – from dawn to dusk. Page by page, as one experiences his day, this assortment of thoughts will encourage reflection, reawaken aspirations, and draw energy from…
By George has been on Twitter for a while now, and we have a few wonderfully inspiring people who we follow (and who follow us). Everyday we re-tweet some great quotes to motivate and inspire. Here are our 15 of our most recent RTs: Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is, but…
For those who do not know David Ogilvy, he is an infamous, late-1900’s advertising executive and copywriter, one of the pioneers of information-rich, soft-sell ads. We recently came across an article on this advertising giant written by Beth Hayden, Senior Staff Writer for Copyblogger Media. What caught our eye were genius quotes on advertising and…
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. – Mark Twain There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. – Willa Cather Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. – Carl Jung The more…
“Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets.” – Ronald Reagan “The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever-rising tax rates to cover ever-rising spending.” – Thomas Sowell “Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple….
How many undervalue the power of simplicity! But it is the real key to the heart. – William Wordsworth I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple. – Albert Einstein I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. – Lao…
By George Journal has recently moved to the Ottawa area, settling in the town of Almonte. To celebrate this move we are publishing @ByGeorgeJournal Top 100 FAV Tweets to #motive and @ByGeorgeJournal Top 100 FAV Tweets to #inspire. After more than 5,000 tweets to motivate and to inspire, we believe these quotes to be…
May you always walk in sunshine; May you never want for more; And may Irish angels rest their wings – right beside your door. Erin Go Brew! To celebrate the luck of the Irish this weekend, By George offers posts of quotes, Irish facts, and video clips. Cheers! Our Favourite Irish Toasts 10 Facts…
“Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.” – Alvin Toffler “Everything changes but change itself.” – John F. Kennedy “In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.” – Anne Sophie Swetchine “Plus ca change, plus c’est la même chose — The more things change, the…
Here are 25 of our most recent FAV tweets from the By George Journal Twitter stream: There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley There is more to life than increasing its speed. – Gandhi It’s not what happens to you, but how…
The Old Man and the Sea is Ernest Hemingway’s last major work of fiction, first published in 1952. The book won a Pultizer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. On the surface, it is a tale of an aged fisherman and his struggle to land a giant marlin. At…
Over the past few days, By George has re-posted our top-15-favourite wall posters of 2012 on our Facebook page. Readers will know that in past commentaries, we have argued the notion that FB wall posts are modern man’s hieroglyphics. When you skim through a FB timeline, it is akin to gazing over a wall in…
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) was an American satirist – one of the cleverest American writers of the early 1900’s. Here are a dozen of his bons mots: The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. For every complex problem, there…
Robert Brault is a free-lance writer who has contributed to many American magazines and newspapers. He also has an interesting blog and is a regular social media contributor. In 2012, Brault tweeted about 400 original thoughts on Twitter and recently he listed his top 50 tweets. Here are his top dozen 2012 tweets, in order…
From the scribes at CG&A COMMUNICATIONS have a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2013! To toast to your health and happiness in the New Year, here is our collection of cheers! NEW YEAR TOASTS Here’s to a bright New Year and a fond farewell to the old; here’s to things that are yet to…
Hemingway’s 1940 epic war story, For Whom the Bell Tolls, provides glimpses into the author’s personal perspectives of the Spanish Civil War – and his bold, stark insights into war and politics, and killing, dying and the coming to terms with one’s mortality. It is a novel preoccupied with death and, at the same time,…